netdev - Re: [PATCH] aoe: remove dev_base_lock use from aoecmd_cfg

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Message-Id: <6390F3B7-6E76-4556-B1C8-E0C25D861880@coraid.com>
Date:	Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:18:12 -0400
From:	Ed Cashin <ecashin@...aid.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aoe: remove dev_base_lock use from aoecmd_cfg_pkts()

Eric Dumazet writes :

> dev_base_lock is the legacy way to lock the device list, and is planned
> to disappear. (writers hold RTNL, readers hold RCU lock)
> 
> Convert aoecmd_cfg_pkts() to RCU locking.


Thanks.

-- 
  Ed Cashin
  ecashin@...aid.com

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